Well, hey! Alabama managed to elect their first Democratic candidate to the Senate in over 20 years . . . WOO-HOO! Now let's hope there isn't some kind of a backlash. What he said about the sanctity of the family being greatest during the time of slavery was more than absurd, it was abominable. Whe...

Acaila wrote:On the Christmas theme, I noted a couple of weeks ago that you can sing the whole bit of Les Mis where Valjean appears at the barricade up to the First Attack to the tune of Jolly Old Saint Nicholas.

What Prisoner said. ARGH, it's true. I'm using Resist-Bot to fax and write to my congresspeople not that it's going to do any good. Texas is backward. Resist-Bot, what it is: you text in your name, address, and so on, and a message, and it sends it via fax or mail. Not a bot in the usual (spammy) se...

It's coming to Dallas and I'm going to get to go! That's great! Please share your experience afterwards, I'm curious about this production. I will certainly do so. It's next year, but even so we didn't get very good seats. Still, seeing it at all is going to be a thrill. I'll have to take some oper...

Way too much to comment on all of it and I'm jumping in way late but I'll just tell my experience with getting a job in the US, which I think I've posted before but it is peripherally related to this discussion. I majored in linguistics. They told us with that degree we could get a job at one of two...

Houston is still swamped and the governor of Texas doesn't want to release any of the state emergency funds to them... Update: Houston has some money now. After sparring over whether the state should tap into its Rainy Day Fund for the city’s effort to recover from Hurricane Harvey’s devastating fl...

I saw a post on facebook (admittedly, that is always a bad way to start a point) saying Kaepernick had been just sitting down until he spoke to a veteran about it, and decided to kneel as that was still showing respect while making a point. So if that is true, it's doubly idiotic. It's a true story...

Re the shooting in Las Vegas. My personal beliefs as an American citizen: There should be background checks for buying guns and a waiting period, and training and licensing like for cars. This might cut back on background-noise gun deaths (like family disputes, suicides, road rage), but I don't thin...